The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1931, Page 2

‘ASSES ATTACH UTMOST IMPORTANCE. 10 DRIVE FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE NEW YORK.—‘The 1 ression on this tour,” said William | are being ha Foster, in an interview with the| men of the outstanding ing on, it is a scandal how the jobs led over to the nench- horities, This is the| ly Worker at the close of his king trip through many of the e industrial cities east of Chicago, 5 the splendid spirit of workers of the unemployed, Undoubtedly orkers’ Bill. At the meetings the neces- of building the unemplo; cils and the Trade Union U ue generally was stressed.” ster reports that in most plates al governments and emp’ ing practically no relief to thé! almost negligible,” said Fos. “at the most they give a haiid-| to those absolutely starving. Y sending inspectots, they e something like $2 or $3 a week s who are otherwise goth# ie soon of hunger. | Where there are public works go~| {| unemployed tures for) f Unemployment Insur-} | or ratified, and both bill and delega- | same everywhere.” | Great Struggles Near. “Another thing that struck “ts the fact Foster continued, uggles are obviou vicinity, by textile wor in Phila- delphia, by textile workers in Law- rence and by shoe Workers in Brock- ton and Haverhill. These are al fi 's forced on the workers by wage- cuts, reductions which assume ar ever more sweeping character, nee continually fe rt of the workers.” Foster told how both employ places meetings to nsur- | and to organization and|{ mnstrations for it, signature col- ons and local demands. It was teristic of the deeply rooted that everywhere the local un- employed workers had drawn up com- period in this respect. Big Demonstratiotis Feb. 10, Af all the mass meetings the bill wag..endorsed and delegates to go with it to Washington either el E lists of local demands, m: a teal advance over the March and tc stifen: ted 6 a reeted with utmost en- iasm by the masses. Foster s' ed that apperently the | presentation of the bill to congress. | Feb. 10, would be accompanied on a national scale by the biggest and most militant demonstration this country has even seen. t ms were MMUNIST PARTY TO LABOR DEFE owder in Statement Says That Winter Relief known to the workers of this city. Campaign Is O Important Tasks W YORK, Jan. 16.—Calling upon | workers to rally behind the Win- Relief Campaign of the Interna- | -al Labor Defense for the relief of ~ss war prisoners and their de- | ents, the Communist ~ Party. -ugh Earl Browder for the secte- fot issued a statement that’ the} ter Relief Campaign should be /imprisoned militants, that the present | URGES SUPPORT NSE RECIEF DRIVE, me of the Most | an unprecedented number of arrests | in the history of the American labor movement, the workers’ defense or- | ganization faced the hard task of sup- porting the wives and children of the | Winter Relief Campaign was in-| fugurated. The families of jailed | jworkers faced eviction and hunger | and were dependent upon the I. L. D. for the few dollars so necessary for | their immediate needs. vessed upon the minds of every | ‘er as one of the most important | -s before us.” Browder points out * there are many militants serv- | handouts and policemen’s clubs. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JAN JARY 19, 1931 NDID SPIRIT OF STRUGGLE IS B G THING i ADVEN URES OF BILL WORKER ON FOSTER _TOUR® —We'll Know What to Do With Them— By RYAN WALKER youre Fert "AN BEC Tee D, AR ( FIGHY FoR MY INDEPENDENCE | FROM KING GEORGE IT ANN | At DESCENDANTS MEMBERS OF lf FIGHT MEXICO AND TAKe ||) DESTROY NeGRo SLaveny, “TEXAS FoR ME AND I'LL |) AND TLL MAKe Bory . TEACH You ¥o HATE THE MEXICANS E. Negro AND WHITE oe , a WAGE SLAVES fe | a TAKE COBA AND SELL SUGAR To YoU At A0o% PRorit { seemed! \ ) AND FARMERU "WARD WITH MEXICO - AND CINIL WAR, Fae COMMUNISTPARTY ENTERS SPECIA" BKLYN ELECTIO. Put Forth Party Pro- gram of Struggle Special elections will be held in Districts 7 and 9, Brooklyn, to replace the late congressmen of those dis- tricts. The Communist Party is en- tering the election campaign and has put up J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, as candidate in District 7, and Fred Biedenkapp, national or- ganizer of the Independent Shoe | Workers Union, in District 9. Those two men are fighters and are well| The issues of the campaign are | clear. ‘The economic crisis, with its | mags unemployment, wage slashes, misery and starvation dictates the is- sues. The Communist Party and the revolutionary unions have made im-| mediate unemployment relief and un- employment insurance the central is- | sue of the day. They are organizing | the workers ‘for strikes against wage | cuts, speed-up, the 7-hour day, 5-day | week. Teh answer of the bosses and the city government has been charity, flophouses, breadlines, salvation army ‘The campaign of persecution of the foreign born; the campaign of lynch- | ing Negro workers, which came as far | HUNGER-MARCH ALL OVER CITY TUES. cynically cheers for evictions, even when hig own emergency relief com- mittee asks particular families be not evicted, the mayor who said, when the workers shouted for bread, “When will they serve the ice cream?” The administration whosé tenement house CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) end an advertised open meeting ere and stiggest that the budget some notice of the nged of the sbless Yor relief. This delegation Negin, Stone and Lealess) goes on al Jan. 26 in special sessions, hav- g been dehied a jury trial. The jobless will present demands for immediate relief for the unem~- ployed, administered by the workers and taken ffom the 200 millions of dollars now being more than wasted on the bankers, the extta $7,000,000 being given the police to club work- ers,.and other funds, part of them to be raised by cutting the enormous salariés of the Tammahg gang. They will demand no evictions, no cutting off of light and heat, no bar- ring from the municipal flop house. They will demand the public build- ings and vacant apartments free to house the jobléss. They will demand free meals, clothing anr car fare for the school children of the jobless. They are still being held today. Sam Nesin, himself ® member of | Under the auspices of the Unemploy- the Oct. 16 delegation and secretary | ed Council, a mass meeting on un- of the Councils of the Unemployed, | employment will be held today at 140 served a formal demand on Walker | Neptune Ave. and the police department for a per-| phe Jewelry Workers Unemployed mit for the same use of the streets | council meets today, at Bryant Hall, which the Walker administration |; ». m, falls all over itself to give the fagcist ‘ fliers, queen Mario or the Prince of The Office Workers Unemployed ke to the landlords that he is demand- ing that restrictions on the use of the unhealthy basement tenements be weakened; the city where the semi- public relief committees are investi- gating what breadlines exist with the idea of reducing the amount of food handed out, already cut to slow starvation for the jobless, the ad- ministration which usés speed-up on the relief~jobs, which never did a thing anyway until workers had dem- onstrated in the face of blackjacks and mounted police charges. Scoreg of mass meetings, open air and indoor, have been held during the last few days. More Preparation Today commissioner is go openly subservient | | tae SPANISH-AMERICAN Wa ik (MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FoR. ME~ AND See WWwitacr TLL You~ . GING —S i SAND Now You SOVIET UNION Bu 1 © GoTo WAR AGAINST CA PITALIS a Red Builders Answer Fish By Pushing the Daily Worker Drive | NEW YORK.—The Fish Committee {is just another attempt on the part jot the capitalists to suppress the | voice of the most militant workers, so we the Red Builders News Club are janswering the attack on the Daily Worker, which is the very voice of the exploited and hung:y workers. The workers want the Daily | Worker. It speaks for the men in the | breadlines, it speaks for the workers | whose wages are cut, it brings or- | ganization and fighting spirit to the workers who works twelve hours a day, it defends the family whose fur- initure is thrown out on the street. We will take it upon ourselves to see that the Daily Workers get into the hands of the working-class. We |will increase the membership of the |Red Builders News Club, we will in- | crease the sales of the Drily Worker, ganizs strong Red Builders Clubs as jand we call upon cther cities to or- | the proses answer to the Fist: Com- | mittee. terday. meetings. Fourth St. ger march Another meeting was held at night 1,000 JOBLESS ENDORSE BILL |Down Town Council Is Fighting Evictions NEW YORK.—Copies of the Daily Worker and of Labor Unity get a large distribution at the mass meet- ings of the Downtown Unemployed Council at 10 a. m. in front of the Tammany fake employment agency, members of the council reported yes- Saturday the council held three One was the usual Leon- ard and Lafayette Sts. meeting, which always ends with a march to the headquarters of the council at 27 E. There was a meeting of 500 to 600 at Tenth St. and Second Ave., Satur- day afternoon to prepare for the hun- tomorrow. $$ nnn at the sdme corner, in which about 1,000 endorsed the bill and ratified the delegation elected to carty it to congress on Feb, 10. Defend 2 Arrested. At the indoor meeting Saturday, half starved men parted with their last pennies to raise a fund of $15.20 as a part of the bail demanded for the two arrested at the Manhattan Lyceum Jan. 8 On this occasion, a preparatory demonstration for the hunger march tomorrow, the police attacked the jobless as they left the hall, and arrested two workers, Zaroff and Boschie. They are held to the grand jury on charges of felonious ~ assault. Build Tenarits’s League. The Downtown Council took the lead in organizing a tenants’s league around the cases of the eviction of ‘Tillie Weintraub at 178 Clinton St. and of another family at 226 Clinten St. Another meeting is to take place Jan. 22 at 2 p. m. at 196 E. Broad- _ way, the East Side Workers’ Club, to enlarge the tenants’ leagues and elect larger committees. The league is being urged to organize house com- mittees in all tenements to fight for [AMUSEMENTS a 20 per cent reduction in rent. Most of those who respond to the tenants’ league are themselves threat- ened with eviction. Council calls a meeting of all unem- } Wales-or any other big exploiter. | Sioved office workers at Labor Tem- | Sees Chief Inspector | ple, 14th St. near Second Ave. at | For answer a police inspector called | noon today. on Nesin Saturday and told him he} ‘The hunger march and the de- | - long sentences for their working) 5 activities and that it is impera- | : for the I. L. D. to carry through | rrogram of supporting the wives | ) children of imprisoned workers 1 the sending of a few dollars each | *h to the prisoners themselves. xeause of the many persecutions workers during the past year when | International Labor Defense de- ‘ed almost 7,000 arrested workers, In the statement from Earl Brow- | north ag-New Jersey only a few der it is pointed out that “with 94 weeks ago, the campaign of dividing prisoners serving sentences of up to | the working class, in order that the wotld have to see’ the chief inspector | mands and delegation were endorged | today at 10. Nesin and a committee | by tive indoor meetings held Friday will go down and repeat the demand, | night, There were 400 present at 42 years, as in the Imperial Valley | bosses may prosecute their plans for case, and some with life sentences, | another imperialist war, must be with many of the prisoners having | combatted. The Communist Party wives and children outside who are calls on the workers to rally to its penniless, it is a first duty of the I. | program of struggle of Clags Against L D. program of sending $5 a month | Class. |to each prisoner and $20 to the de- | Ipendent families.” unitzler Play Next Theatre Guild Production| “he Theatre Guild’s next produc- ) will be Arthur Schnitzler’s “The “ely Way.” It goes into rehearsal rtly under the direction of Philip veller. Preparations are also under ay for production of “Miracle at ‘erdun,” the play by the late Hans Chlumborg. On Jan. 26, “Midnight,” by Claire end Paul Sifton, will move to the ‘von Theatre. On the same evening, the Guild’s production of “Green C-ow the Lilacs” will be presented et the Guild Theatre. The Guild’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” has been dropped from this season's program. Miss Eva Le Gallienne, who has been illfi has decided to close the Civic Repertory Theatre for one week —from Jan. 19 to Jan. 26. This is being done in order that she ‘may open in “Camille” on Monday eve- ning, Jan. 26, as announced. i} VAUDEVILLE THEATRES HIPPODROME—On the screen: “Criminal Code,” with Walter Huston, Unemployed to Meet — in Brighton Beach Monday, January 19 A mass meeting of unemployed vovkers has been called for Monday, <9. 19, at 140 Neptune Ave. to mob- ‘ce all unemployed workers of Phillips Holmes and Constance Cum- mings. Vaudeville: The Lander Brothers, in “Palm Beach Nights”; Lucky Strike Marimba Orchestra; Serge Flash; Lou Krugel and Charles Robles; Ed Pressler and Blanche Klaiss; Beehee and Rubyatte and Hope Vernon. 81ST STREET—To Tuesday: Ben Blue, and Mr. Wu's Chinese Colle- gians; George Beatty, the Donovan Girls and Bishop’s harmony and Ev- ‘eret’s simian comedians. On the screen: “Danger Lights.” Wednesday to Friday: Nick Lucas, with Janette Hackett; Chain and Conroy; James Evans, others. “Charley's Aunt” on the screen. 86TH STREET—To Tuesday: On | the screen, “Charley's Aunt.” Vaude- | Ville: Ann Suter, Charles Withers, Bernardo DePace, Abe Reynolds and others. To Friday—Vaudeville: Healy and Cross; Nina Olivette and Boys; Senator Murphy; Ann Boland and Harris Brothers and France and La Pell. Screen: “Danger Lights.” Brighton Beach for the Hunger to ratify the list of delegates proposed March to City Hall on Jan. 20 and jat the Jan. 12th Unemployment Con- ference to go to Albany and present the demands of the unemployed The Communist Party puts for- ward its program and candidates against the program and candidates of the republican ond democratic parties—the program of mass hunger and suppression; againgt the program of the socialist party, which supports the bosses in all attacks on the work; | ers; against the American Federation of Labor, whose leaders have long) gold out the workers and support the program of the bosses against the workers (against unemployed relief and insurance, for wage cuts, speed- | up, etc.). ‘The Communist Party will carry on a vigorous campaign and calls on the workers to vote for its program and candidates on February 17, the date of the special election. Ex-Servicemen to Join Hunger March All ex-service men are called upon by the Workers’ Ex-Service Men's League to join the hunger march. ‘Their mobilization point will be an- nounced later. They have a dele- gate on the committee to see Walker. Today the Jewelry Trades workers will be called to a meeting on unem- pleyment at 1 p. m. at Bryant Hall, 727 Sixth Ave., near 42nd St. Sam Nesin will speak. workers. This meeting is called under ‘the auspices of the Brighton Beach ‘Unemployed Council which is com- Posed mainly of Negro workers. iscipline Is a ; Bolshevik Duty ONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ond ¥.C.L, members and the revolu- “osary workers, on the basis of rev- © ujlonary discipline, all our activi- ($+ unemployment and_ political Although we must not try to » this boisterousness, nevertheless s must not be overdone. Labor and Fraternal yMONDAY — —— te A Maxs Meeting ‘¥ Held by the Bronx Workers Club Jointly with the unemployed council, newly organized, takes piace at 1472 Boston rd., at 8 p.m. T.U.U.L, speak- ers will address the workers. | Medical Workers Industrial League Meets at 8 p. m. at 131 W. 28th St., first floor, All members plense be ‘on time, + . TUESDAY — =e ee Lecture “The Coming War” Will be delivered at the regular meeting of Womens Counct! No. 25 at 7.30 p. m. at 2600 65th Ct. B'klyn. WEDNESDAY — — Passnic, Attn: The Lenin-Leibknecht-Luxembure Mémorial_ meeting takes place at 8 p. m. at Russian National Home, 159 Fourth St. under the auspices of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, 8 will be of ‘the character that makes for developing the working class into Scientific Examination of eye glasses—Carefally adjusted by expert optometrists—Reason- able prices. 3y6nan Nevebunya DR. A. BROWN Dentist 901 BAST 147TH STREET (Corner Second Avenue) Tel, Algonquin 7248 | but permit or'no permit, the Jobless | Ambassador Hall, Bronx; 600 at Bry- | will be on the strets in full force to-| ant Hall, Mid. Town Section, 700 in | Morrow. Manhattan Lyceum, Downtown; 300 | ‘They realize that real pressure must | in Williamsburg Workers Club, and a | hit the administration whose mayor | good meeting in Brownsville. 2nd BIG WEEK! LEO TOLSTOY’S DRAMATIC NOVEL “The Living Corpse” With PUDOVKIN, DIRECTOR OF “STORM OVER ASIA,” IN THE LEADING ROLE PRODUCED BY MEJRABPOFILM OF. 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Th. & Sat. 2:40 ‘The Actor-Managers, tnc., Draper in Original Character Sketches * "PROGRAM CHANGED DAILY COMEDY THEATRE — PRICES $1 fist BE. B'y. ‘Thur, & 8 Ew } (Including Sunday) a present RUTB 6th Ave. HIPPODROME -*.,.':: MST SHOW IN NEW TORK RKO | ‘TheCRIMINAL : CODE” ONS with Walter Huston 35 A F Eves. 8:50. FH. WOODS Presents ARTHUR BYRON ” IVE STAR FINAL “Pive Star Final’ is electrie and alive. UN. CORT THEATRE, West of 48th Street 2330 Mats. Wed. and Sat, with EDGAR W. Eves, 8:50, a ALLACE’S FORRE! 49th Street, West of Broadway Wed. & Sat, at 2:30 EDGAR WALLACE’S PLAY ON THE SPOT CRANE WILBUR and NNA MAY WONG Mats. RESTAURANT oe de ‘Will Always Find Pleasant’ to Dine at Our Places 1781 SOUTHERN BLVD. Bropa (near 174th St Stati TELEPHONE INTERVALE o0149 All \.omraaee Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Broas We Invite Workers to the ETHEL 47th st Evenings &: Always a Good Show MORNING FREIHEIT COSTUME BALL Saturday Eve:,. 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